<p>In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Law_School" title="University of Chicago Law School">University of Chicago Law School</a> to work on his first book.<sup id="cite_ref-Scott_2008a_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scott_2008a-45"><span>[</span>45<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fellow_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fellow-46"><span>[</span>46<span>]</span></a></sup> He then taught <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_law" title="Constitutional law">constitutional law</a> at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, first as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span>[</span>47<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's <a href="/wiki/Project_Vote" title="Project Vote">Project Vote</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Voter_registration_campaign" title="Voter registration campaign">voter registration campaign</a> with ten staffers and seven hundred volunteer registrars; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading <i><a href="/wiki/Crain%27s_Chicago_Business" title="Crain's Chicago Business">Crain's Chicago Business</a></i> to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.<sup id="cite_ref-Forty_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forty-48"><span>[</span>48<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>He joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill &amp; Galland, a 13-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then <a href="/wiki/Of_counsel" title="Of counsel">of counsel</a> from 1996 to 2004. His law license became inactive in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DavisMiner_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DavisMiner-50"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>From 1994 to 2002, Obama served on the boards of directors of the <a href="/wiki/Woods_Fund_of_Chicago" title="Woods Fund of Chicago">Woods Fund of Chicago</a>, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Developing Communities Project, and of the <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Foundation" title="Joyce Foundation">Joyce Foundation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Who.27s_Who_2008_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who.27s_Who_2008-31"><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup> He served on the board of directors of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Annenberg_Challenge" title="Chicago Annenberg Challenge">Chicago Annenberg Challenge</a> from 1995 to 2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995 to 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-Who.27s_Who_2008_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Who.27s_Who_2008-31"><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup></p>